Experience with new audio board?

[Meryem Ersoz]

most recent mention is one of those hidden, hard to find posts....

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpos...0&postcount=80

[Emanuel A.]

Great news from the redusers world... Congrats RED team!

EDIT -- Stick it!!

[James Press]

We're using phantom power (no batteries), 3 mics in each camera, and the sound is great.

But what's not great is having to reset the menus to power-on phantom power every time we reboot. Unfortunately that feature didn't make it in the latest firmware upgrade...hopefully next time.

[Rob Castiglione]

Rather than having phantom power on all the time (not good for mics you plug in), what would be best is an assignable button on the evf say. That would be very useful.

Rob

[Stuart English]

One thing that you can do at this time is to assign the 48V Mic menu to one of the three User Menu keys A B C.

That will give you an equivalent short cut access to enable Phantom Power.

[Rob Castiglione]

I didnt realise that Stuart. Is that in Build 16 or 17? That is a good solution.

Rob

[Chris Parker]

is there any change in the audio cables needed to work with line inputs now on the new audio board, or the same cables are fine?

[Stuart English]

Is that in Build 16 or 17? That is a good solution.

Either one of those Builds will do this.

[Stuart English]

is there any change in the audio cables needed to work with line inputs now on the new audio board, or the same cables are fine?

Yes you don't want to be using the RED full-size XLR to mini-XLR cables which include padding resistors inside anymore.

Those cables probably could be reworked in the field if necessary.

Camera shipments now use the "original" cable style - a full-size XLR to mini-XLR adaptor plus a mini-XLR to mini-XLR cable.

[JanneJansson]

We're using phantom power (no batteries), 3 mics in each camera, and the sound is great.

But what's not great is having to reset the menus to power-on phantom power every time we reboot. Unfortunately that feature didn't make it in the latest firmware upgrade...hopefully next time.

Yep, having to enable the phantom power every time the camera starts is not good.